netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] rhashtable: fix for resize events during table walk

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:55:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	phil@....cc
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, daniel@...earbox.net,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, mroos@...ux.ee
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rhashtable: fix for resize events during table walk

From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2015 15:51:20 +0200

> If rhashtable_walk_next detects a resize operation in progress, it jumps
> to the new table and continues walking that one. But it misses to drop
> the reference to it's current item, leading it to continue traversing
> the new table's bucket in which the current item is sorted into, and
> after reaching that bucket's end continues traversing the new table's
> second bucket instead of the first one, thereby potentially missing
> items.
> 
> This fixes the rhashtable runtime test for me. Bug probably introduced
> by Herbert Xu's patch eddee5ba ("rhashtable: Fix walker behaviour during
> rehash") although not explicitly tested.
> 
> Fixes: eddee5ba ("rhashtable: Fix walker behaviour during rehash")
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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